# upfront payments, milestones, hardware purchase commitments, access fees and royalties **Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] ## Definition **upfront payments, milestones, hardware purchase commitments, access fees and royalties** is a technology, method, or technical system. [[wiki/Merge–Butterfly agreement|Merge–Butterfly agreement]] includes **upfront payments, milestones, hardware purchase commitments, access fees and royalties**. The entry centers on the technology's mechanism, implementation, applications, and technical lineage, keeping demonstrated capability separate from projected deployment. ## Relationships <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry is routed through [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Key Relationships - [[wiki/Merge–Butterfly agreement|Merge–Butterfly agreement]] includes **upfront payments, milestones, hardware purchase commitments, access fees and royalties**. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Research Edges <!-- BEGIN CONSCIOUSNESS MAPPING TRANSFER RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 690 — [[wiki/Merge–Butterfly agreement|Merge–Butterfly agreement]] `includes` → this entry** — **VERIFIED_PRIMARY**; evidence `BUTTERFLY_MERGE_CURRENT`. <!-- END CONSCIOUSNESS MAPPING TRANSFER RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 -->